When an Empire is not an Empire
The US Case
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6265774 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Desmond King (0000-0002-8763-2179, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 163-196 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Government and Opposition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0017-257X • E-ISSN: 1477-7053 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1477-7053.2006.00175.x |
| OpenAlex | W2004256664 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
This paper critically assesses the description ‘empire’ as applied to the United States in the twentieth century, proposing that US policy makers lack the territorial and occupation motives pre-requisite to being an imperial power. It is proposed that the USA is better described as an empire by accident than by design. Americans’ domestic experience of nation-building within the USA, since the early twentieth century, helps account for their unwillingness to permit the USA to be an imperial nation
Accident (philosophy · Economic history · Empire · Epistemology · Political economy · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Australian History and Society · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2024 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |